Today in Medical History
Sub-Topics: Disease - Medical Researcher - Physician - Surgery - Virus
Historical Events
Results 1 - 52 of 52
1582-12-15 - Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine
1677-01-21 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1760-06-10 - NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1765-05-03 - 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1768-06-21 - 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
1772-09-26 - New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine
1818-04-14 - US Medical Corp forms
1847-05-05 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1847-05-07 - American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
1848-10-16 - 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1848-11-01 - 1st US woman's medical school opens (Boston)
1848-11-23 - Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1849-10-19 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in US to receive medical degree
1850-03-11 - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1850-10-12 - 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1863-03-19 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
1864-03-01 - Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree
1867-07-17 - 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1876-11-07 - Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1880-07-16 - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1884-04-24 - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1889-01-15 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892-12-30 - Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
1907-12-10 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
1920-08-20 - Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1924-10-24 - Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven
1924-12-10 - Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1929-02-19 - Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
1936-12-24 - 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
1937-02-24 - 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
1937-07-05 - 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
1938-04-12 - 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)
1938-04-12 - US began requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
1939-05-14 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1948-12-03 - 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
1949-06-23 - 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1950-03-08 - 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
1954-06-13 - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
1961-02-01 - British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1961-12-23 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
1962-10-18 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1974-06-01 - The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978-06-28 - Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
1979-10-11 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
1979-10-22 - Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment
1980-06-12 - Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981-06-18 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1986-12-17 - Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1991-06-26 - Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes
1994-08-14 - Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic
1997-11-16 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
2005-06-06 - The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 80 of 80
1511-07-01 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], medical/historian/humanist
1522-09-11 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical
1668-12-31 - Hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist
1704-12-08 - Anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1715-11-13 - Dorothea Erxleben, German, first female medical doctor (d.1762)
1758-09-26 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
1812-05-06 - Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, 1st black major in US Medical Corp
1815-01-21 - Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia)
1827-04-08 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)
1833-12-20 - Samuel A Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
1844-10-03 - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"
1845-06-18 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
1864-03-01 - Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree
1865-02-28 - Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
1869-06-27 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1881-02-19 - Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care
1887-04-13 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
1891-11-14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1895-10-30 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
1899-02-27 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
1901-05-07 - L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
1901-09-22 - Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher
1903-11-11 - Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine
1910-05-29 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
1910-05-31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, Hastings, 1st woman doctor of medicine
1910-06-16 - Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
1911-05-05 - Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, specialist in tropical medicine
1912-10-05 - Fritz Fischer (medical doctor), Nazi war criminal
1913-11-27 - Frances Swem Anderson, technologist (nuclear medicine)
1914-02-22 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1914-10-28 - Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher (polio vaccine)
1915-04-02 - Antony Dornhorst, professor of medicine
1917-11-23 - Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer
1918-10-23 - James Daly, Wisc, actor (Medical Center)
1919-12-02 - Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher
1920-03-15 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1921-06-19 - Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1921-07-19 - Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
1921-08-08 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
1923-09-09 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1923-11-05 - Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist
1924-07-26 - John Kilgour, director of prison medical services (Home Office)
1925-01-28 - Henry Harris, British professor of medicine
1925-09-24 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1926-09-17 - Donald Acheson, England's chief medical officer
1928-01-31 - Eric Ash, rector (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine)
1928-05-20 - Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor
1929-06-03 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1931-01-11 - Ed Hall, Roxbury Mass, actor (Dr Bicker-Medical Center)
1931-08-01 - Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine (St James University England)
1932-03-30 - A J Zuckerman, Dean (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine)
1932-05-09 - David Plastow, CEO (Medical Research Council)
1934-03-11 - George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greece, medical genetics researcher
1936-02-22 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936-04-18 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator
1936-06-11 - Chad Everett, South Bend In, actor (Medical Center, Airplane II)
1936-09-14 - Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1937-06-11 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1938-07-28 - George Cummings, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
1939-09-06 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1941-10-24 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
1942-03-27 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942-05-28 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942-08-08 - Jay David, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
1943-09-06 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1944-06-06 - Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1945-07-06 - Rik Elswit, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1947-06-08 - Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1948-08-22 - Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor (Pink Medicine Show)
1950-11-06 - Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical)
1951-09-30 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1951-11-09 - Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology)
1953-01-29 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
1960-08-10 - Todd David Hess, First USAF Member inducted into Army's Order of Military Medical Merit.
1963-04-20 - Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
1964-07-20 - Murray Craven, Medicine Hat, NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970-04-11 - Trevor Linden, Medicine Hat, NHL right wing (Canucks, NY Islanders)
1971-12-18 - Neil Little, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Phila Flyers)
1972-07-01 - Corey Hirsch, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
2003-07-04 - Alessia di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 63 of 63
1575-06-16 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63
1605-05-04 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
1677-07-09 - Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies
1738-09-23 - Hermannus Boerhaave, medical/botanist, dies at 69
1776-05-13 - Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71
1799-12-06 - Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71
1804-05-24 - Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73
1865-07-25 - "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1883-01-10 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
1883-05-17 - Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
1898-09-16 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
1922-05-18 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
1926-01-21 - Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81
1927-07-05 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
1930-11-05 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
1932-09-16 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1934-10-17 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1936-02-28 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
1940-10-09 - Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941-02-21 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
1944-11-05 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1951-10-06 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1961-12-25 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1964-04-24 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
1965-03-30 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1968-02-21 - Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
1972-05-04 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1973-02-23 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
1975-11-05 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1978-03-31 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1978-07-03 - James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
1978-09-11 - Janet Parker, medical photographer (b. c. 1938)
1982-06-12 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1984-10-20 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1985-09-08 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
1987-10-02 - Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies
1987-11-11 - L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86
1993-12-04 - Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42
1995-06-27 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59
1995-11-03 - Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887)
1996-03-12 - Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92
1996-08-15 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86
1996-11-25 - Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79
1996-12-12 - Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77
1996-12-31 - Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, tropical mediciner, dies at 85
1997-01-12 - Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95
1997-01-22 - Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, dies at 73
1997-05-22 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
1999-02-21 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
1999-11-16 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
2000-10-15 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2001-06-05 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002-01-11 - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
2002-03-24 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
2003-04-20 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
2004-07-21 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2004-10-05 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)
2004-12-21 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
2004-12-29 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2007-01-01 - Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
2007-12-20 - Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990)
2008-05-29 - Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)
2008-05-30 - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
